The Mobile Phone Poll

I upgraded to the new iPhone OS a few days ago and it's a thing of beauty. There are several new features but the ones that have affected and impressed me the most are multitasking, folders for apps, google suggest in safari and the homescreen wallpaper. Some of these features were only available in jailbroken phones previously. The multitasking feature allows me to use Spotify in the background. The folders feature has enabled me to condense eight pages of my 100+ apps into the single main home screen. However the one feature that I have not warmed up to yet is email threads. It's not quite working well with my Yahoo account. Anyone facing similar problems? Any tips?

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Amazon Kindle

Can I just say, WOW! How did I overlook it for so long?! I downloaded the iPhone app eons ago but kept putting it off. Eventually I forgot about it. Then a few weeks ago I read about how Amazon were selling more ebooks on Kindle than actual books themselves. Even that didn't motivate me to immediately look it up. But a couple days ago I was browsing through Amazon and I don't know why, but I clicked on the Kindle link. And bloody hell. I wish I'd followed my usual predatory instinct for adopting new technologies a lot earlier. Their books are CHEAP*, like cheaper than books normally cost on Amazon itself and more importantly, they're easy to read on the iPhone. And you don't have to read them on an iDevice. I never realised Amazon sold their own Kindle reading device. Check it out if you haven't already. It's rad!

* For instance, this book's hardcover RRP is £30. On Amazon it costs £18 and the paperback £15. But the Kindle eBook? Just £8!

Thought of the Day

Isn't it ironic how many Indian parents are willing to invest almost anything on their children's education, yet our government's record on the same front is among the world's worst? Just goes to show, the people with the right priorities aren't public servants. They're working hard.

Christian Poulsen Joins Liverpool

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the ref that it wasn't a booking." -Tom Nycz-Losi

I'm not happy. He's good, but I don't like players who subscribe to the Van Bommel School of Fair Play. Makes Materazzi look like a saint.